This photograph, taken by an International Space Station astronaut while in orbit over the Caribbean Sea, captures one of Earth’s most alluring ocean locations. The Great Blue Hole lies near the ...
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Exploring Seychelles’ Outer Islands, Some of Earth’s Last Truly Wild Places
Windswept isolation, inhospitality to humans, and piracy have historically kept this place one of the planet's truly wild and ...
Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 6 (2016), pp. 2191-2206 (16 pages) We present results of the thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of an atoll system and their effect on coral cover based on field ...
How Many Atolls Does Belize Have? Belize is home to three atolls, Turneffe Atoll, Lighthouse Reef Atoll, and Glover's Reef Atoll. Each atoll offers different activities and opportunities, but the most ...
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - UH Manoa researchers are growing increasingly concerned over a species of algae taking over the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Scientists found that the ...
The reefs at Palmyra Atoll, a small outlying atoll in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, have been undergoing a shift from stony corals to systems dominated by corallimorphs, marine invertebrates that ...
Charles Darwin sparked more than one controversy over the natural progression of life. One such case involved the evolution of coral atolls, the ring-shaped coral reefs that surround submerged ...
Many coral reef islands, or atolls, are created by water moving sand and gravel, piling it up into consecutive ridged layers. However, new research has uncovered a different type of island ...
Reef islands are small, low-lying islands composed mainly of bioclastic sands and gravels from the late Holocene. These islands, which support around 700,000 people, are vulnerable to potential ...
Such decisions should not be taken lightly, and there is a growing amount of scientific research that reveal a lot of unintended consequences from well intended actions in different parts of the world ...
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